‘Bad Boys Ride or Die’ Global Box Office Passes Coveted Milestone in Debut

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The big picture

Bad Boys: Ride or Die opens to stellar numbers, boosting the industry after a summer of underperforming titles.
Will Smith shines despite past scandal, with $104 million global debut marking top opening of the year.
Adil & Bilall's direction was praised in the fourth instalment, earning huge audience approval and positive reactions from critics.

from Sony Bad Boys: Ride or Die has given the industry reason to celebrate this weekend, after a deeply troubling past few weeks where the big summer titles seemed to underperform. The fourth installment of the now vintage action-comedy franchise opened to stellar numbers both domestically and globally, solidifying star. Will Smiththe appeal despite what appeared to be a career-ending scandal a couple of years ago. Also starring Martin Llorenç, Bad Boys: Ride or Die is Smith's first theatrical release since the incident; previously starred in the Apple TV+ drama emancipation.

Driven by dynamics Adil El Arbi i Bilal Fallah, Bad Boys: Ride or Die grossed $56 million domestically and an additional $48 million from foreign markets in its first three days of release, for a cumulative global debut of $104 million. This is one of the biggest openings of the year and a much-needed boost to a market that has been struggling this summer with major failures such as The Fall Guy i Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. In comparison, the third installment in the franchise: Bad boys for life – grossed $62 million domestically and an almost identical number worldwide in its opening weekend of 2020.

The “Bad Boys” franchise has grossed more than $900 million worldwide

Bad boy movies	Global box office
bad boys	141 million dollars
The bad boys II	273 million dollars
Bad boys for life	426 million dollars
Bad Boys: Ride or Die	$104 million (and counting)

Also directed by Adil & Bilall, The bad boys 3 grossed more than $425 million worldwide in its theatrical run, which thankfully was coming to an end when the pandemic changed the industry forever. Bad Boys: Ride or Dieplays in a very different landscape, where major films are available on streaming and digital not long after their theatrical debuts, and audiences are more selective about what they want to see in theaters. This summer, only Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes it has become a real success, which is not the way things were not too long ago.

But Bad Boys: Ride or Dieopen to a great response from the public, suggesting it will continue to run until the summer. The film holds up an excellent audience approval rating of 97%. on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, in addition to A- CinemaScore that won over the opening day crowds. The film also received mostly positive reactions from critics, and it currently has a “fresh” rating of 64% at RT. collide Matthew Donato praised the direction of Adil & Bilall and wrote in his review that they do a great job of improving the author of the series Michael Baysignature style of.

Bay made his directorial debut with the former bad boys, which was released in 1995 and grossed $141 million worldwide. A sequel, The bad boys II, followed in 2003 and grossed over $270 million worldwide. They also appear there Joe Pantoliano, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Paola Núñez, Jacob Scipioi DJ Khaled, Bad Boys: Ride or Die was produced on a reported budget of $100 million. You can catch the film in theaters and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.